Here’s how a Republican Congress might talk itself into taxing carbon.

Grist
By Nathanael JohnsonAug 21, 2017, 3:59 pm134 pts
Bare with us as we lay this out, it’s a little bit of a Hail Mary-meets-Rube Goldberg bankshot. Republicans yearn to take advantage of the fact that they control the House, Senate, and presidency by making permanent cuts to corporate taxes. They go searching the Congressional couches for spare change to pay…

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